Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Alpheoidea > Family Hippolytidae > Genus Hippolyte

Hippolyte leptocerus (Heller, 1863)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hippolyte*	Leach, 1814	accepted genus name
*Bellidia*	Gosse, 1877	synonym
*Virbius*	Stimpson, 1860	synonym

Species group names

*Hippolyte longirostris*	(Czerniavsky, 1868)	synonym
*Virbius gracilis*	Heller, 1862	synonym; nom. inval.
*Virbius gracilis var. longirostris*	Czerniavsky, 1868	synonym
*Virbius leptocerus*	Heller, 1863	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Hippolyte leptocerus (Heller, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107513